Justice R.M. Lodha

    Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha was born on September 28, 1949 at Jodhpur in the family of judges. He took the B.Sc. and LL.B. Degrees from University of Jodhpur and enrolled with Bar Council of Rajasthan on February 2, 1973. He practiced exclusively in the Rajasthan High Court and dealt with all branches of law : Constitutional, Civil, Company, Criminal, Taxation, Labour etc. He was the Central Government Standing Counsel in charge of entire litigation of Union of India at Jaipur Bench from the year 1990 to 1992. He represented Rajasthan High Court in important matters as Special Counsel. He argued many important cases on behalf of a number of Government bodies, Semi-Government bodies, Public Authorities like the Rajasthan State Industrial and Investment Development Corporation, Rajasthan Text Book Board, Rajasthan Agricultural Marketing Board, Bharatpur Central Co-operative Bank, Rajasthan State Electricity Board, New India Assurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company, Kendriya Vidyalaya etc. He took oath of office as Permanent Judge, Rajasthan High Court at Jodhpur on January 31, 1994 and was transferred to Bombay High Court where he assumed office on February 16, 1994.

    As a Judge, Bombay High Court for thirteen years, he has sat on almost all jurisdictions. Since 2000 until his retransfer to Rajasthan High Court, he presided over Division Benches dealing with Constitutional matters, Tax Laws, Arbitration, Intellectual property, Land Acquisition, Labour, Cooperatives, Public Interest Litigation etc. He is known for high degree of speed and disposal of cases. He has presided over Full Benches involving important questions of law. He has delivered large number of judgments on diverse issues of law which have been reported in various journals.

    He has participated in important conferences, study groups and training programmes meant for Superior Judiciary on intellectual property, gender bias and HIV / AIDS.

    He was involved in the administration of Bombay High Court as (i) Senior Administrative Judge (ii) Chairman, Rules Committee constituted under Section 122 of the Code of Civil Procedure (iii) Chairman, E-Committee for Computerisation in District Courts (iv) Chairman, Monitoring Committee for implementation of decisions taken in the Chief Justices Conference (v) Visitor, Board of Visitors, Judicial Officers Training Institute, Nagpur (vi) Member, Disciplinary Committee, Building Committee, Review Committee of Judicial Officers, Review Committee for reviewing cases of Class I and Class II Gazetted Officers of High Court, Finance Committee and various other administrative committees.

    He was Chairman, Advisory Board constituted under the COFEPOSA Act, 1974 and the M.P.D.A. Act, 1981 in the State of Maharashtra.

    He was retransferred to Rajasthan High Court where he assumed office on 2^nd February, 2007.

    He is a life member of Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.